First-Person Fictions: Pindar's Poetic I

by Mary Lefkowitz and Mary R. Lefkowitz

This collection of essays deals with one central problem: who is the "I" in the odes of the ancient Greek poet Pindar? Since antiquity, the complex and allusive language of the first-person statements has provoked many different answers. In First Person Fictions, Lefkowitz describes the function and nature of Pindar's "I"-statements and offers a controversial solution, proposing that the voice of the victory odes is, rather than a changing identity,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198146868
• ISBN13: 9780198146865
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"